A Nation Divided Against Itself

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NYC slouches towards Armageddon

Greenwich real estate agents (should) celebrate, for now, but the Red States beckon. It’s only worth staying in proximity to NYC for so long as there’s something to stick around for

Matt Vespa, PJMedia on the new face of the Democrat party:

They were expected to have a great night, and they did. The candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani all won. The socialists swept the race. While the national Democrats are Trump-deranged and focused on stopping the MAGA agenda, they have a serial killer hiding within their walls—and it’s wearing a Che Guevara shirt, with a copy of Das Kapital in its back pocket. And while this political killer is no fan of Trump, they want to take out the establishment Democrats first. This party got a reality check tonight: they might have to spend heavily to keep these people out, because the candidates that are winning these primaries are whack job city.

Good news, at least temporarily, for Greenwich real estate sales, because our Hartford Loonies seem content with running the state on a Mandamni Lite agenda, so we’ll continue to look relatively attractive to those NYC refugees who, for now, can’t flee farther away from the coming apocalypse. But down the road? These seems a good time to refer to an article posted yesterday by PowerLine’s John Hinderaker. My only quibble? He refers to “socialism”, and while that may be what the proletariat thinks it’s voting for, these DSA candidates, Platner in Maine, NYC’s new governing body, call for the abolishment of private property, confiscation of “the means of production”, and “workers rule”; that’s what’s coming, and that will be the end.

Our Socialist Fellow-Citizens

The gulf between Republicans/conservatives and Democrats/socialists has grown to the point where it may be unbridgeable. Check out these recent poll data from CNN. Democrats are now firmly in the socialist camp:

How do two parties jointly govern a republic when one of them wants to establish a completely different economic system–a system which is not only intrinsically evil, but which always leads to tyranny? We once were able to compromise our differing views of what would be optimal marginal tax rates. But how do you compromise our insistence on freedom with their yearning for socialist servitude?

The only parallel that our country’s history offers is the conflict over slavery that resulted in the Civil War. Arguably that conflict was more amenable to peaceful political resolution than the one we face now, since we theoretically could have continued for a long time as a nation composed of some free states and some slave states. That is, in fact, what happened for around 70 years. But in today’s world, there isn’t any way to have an economy and a legal system that are half free and half socialist.

There is one obvious positive resolution of the current crisis–a thorough repudiation of the Democratic Party at the polls. But that doesn’t seem to be happening. The Democrats have generally done well in elections in 2025 and 2026, and they probably will do well again in the midterms. What, then, will deter them from continuing down the socialist path? A brutal drubbing in 2028. But at present, there is no reason to expect that result.

So before long, we may have to confront the question whether a nation can long endure, half socialist and half free.

UPDATE: Just to beat this dead horse further …

JOHN FUND: The rise and rise of America’s radical left.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed three fellow socialists in the New York City Democratic Congressional primaries and all three won last night.

Democratic incumbent Dan Goldman lost to Brad Lander, who was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America until 2023. DSA Member Claire Valdez won nomination for a Brooklyn House seat.

But the eyepopper is the victory of Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old DSA member and PhD graduate student, in East Harlem and the Bronx. She defeated Adriano Espaillat, the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and will easily become the most radical House member since Vito Marcantonio of the American Labor Party represented the same area in the 1940s.

The night before his election in November, Zohran Mamdani filmed a video honoring his “radical” hero, Marcantonio.

Chevalier’s views would send even Marcantonio into orbit. DAC – as she will inevitably be dubbed – is so ideologically extreme that Jeff Maurer, a former writer for unrelentingly left-wing comic John Oliver’s HBO show, is gobsmacked by her. Maurer began his latest Substack post by announcing “My challenge is to find words to describe just how bonkers this Cirque du Soleil-level s—show truly is.”

DAC has called for abolishing police, prisons, and borders. As recently as last week, she refused to back down on those views when given an opportunity: “All deportations are wrong,” she says, even for those convicted of a crime.

She co-founded Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the militant student group behind the violent 2024 occupation of Columbia after the Hamas attacks in Gaza the year before. CUAD is explicitly anti-Enlightenment: “We are Westerners fighting for the eradication of Western Civilization. We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the Global South. Our intifada is an Internationalist one…”

Chevalier called the United States “a f—— disgrace,” and referred to the US as “occupied” Native American land. She’s written favorably about communism and seizing “all properties from landlords.”

She has criticized Bernie Sanders and AOC for being too pro-Israel, and is known as a key leader in the “left of AOC” faction of Democratic Socialists of America.

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